*Chapter 13:
ALESSIA
The black claw punched through the fire door’s glass and stopped.
One second, that was all it took for the stairwell to go dead silent. The vents were still roaring, sucking the last of the LOC-7X vapor down into the sub-basement, but the sound felt miles away. All I could hear was my pulse, One hundred sixty-two BP, too high. Mira was awake, and she was listening.
The claw withdrew, Slow and Deliberate. Glass shards rained onto the landing below, tinkling like ice and through the jagged hole, I saw him.
Liam wasn’t a man anymore.
He filled the frame of the fire door, His wolf was massive, dirty-blond fur matted with soot and streaked with something darker. Ice-blue eyes were gone. In their place were flat, reflective disks that caught the emergency lights and g
